![]() ![]() The next year, he was executed, but not before completing a book that was to be beloved for centuries: The Consolation of Philosophy, a short yet profound work, dealing with the turns of fortune, the problem of evil, and the mystery of divine foreknowledge.īoethius’ prior works were scholarly and often theological it was principally thanks to him that Aristotle’s writings on logic (though little else) remained available in Latin when the west had forgotten its Greek, and his writings on the Trinity and the Incarnation helped prepare the ground for the Scholastic revival centuries later. In that year, a brilliant scholar and state official named Boethius was ruined by his enemies on accusation of conspiring with the Byzantines, and sent into exile. In 523, the Ostrogoths had assumed control of the wreckage of the Western Roman Empire, maintaining uneasy ties with the emperors in Constantinople. ![]()
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